NFS Contract Job Trends in London

Network File System (NFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 367 365
Rank change year-on-year -58 -2 +76
Contract jobs citing NFS 19 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.094% 0.029% 0.099%
As % of the System Software category 1.04% 0.27% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 13
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £450 £625 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £300
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +116.67% -48.72%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £388
90th Percentile - - £498
England median daily rate £492 £650 £300
% change year-on-year -24.38% +116.67% -45.45%

All System Software Skills
London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,819 1,464 1,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.00% 10.80% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 953 1,254
10th Percentile £256 £277 £262
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% -8.04%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £615
90th Percentile £716 £725 £720
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 30 19
10th Percentile £22.41 £22.45 £20.40
25th Percentile £28.00 £22.63 £20.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% +9.24% -60.33%
75th Percentile £54.75 £35.75 £24.18
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.75 £31.50
England median hourly rate £60.00 £38.75 £23.80
% change year-on-year +54.84% +62.82% -40.50%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

NFS job vacancy trend in London

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in London

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the London region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -11 2 £465 -28.46%
NFS
England

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) CloudStack
3 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) IaaS
2 9 (47.37%) PaaS
3 7 (36.84%) AWS
4 5 (26.32%) SaaS
5 4 (21.05%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (15.79%) Cohesity
6 3 (15.79%) Rubrik
7 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) DNS
2 7 (36.84%) NAS
3 6 (31.58%) SAN
4 5 (26.32%) Firewall
4 5 (26.32%) Kerberos
5 4 (21.05%) DHCP
6 3 (15.79%) Network Security
7 2 (10.53%) VLAN
7 2 (10.53%) VXLAN
8 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
8 1 (5.26%) VPN
8 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Db2
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Incident Manager
1 5 (26.32%) Major Incident Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Architect
3 3 (15.79%) NetApp Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Production Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Support Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) LDAP
2 4 (21.05%) Middleware
3 2 (10.53%) cloud-init
3 2 (10.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (26.32%) Mainframe
2 5 (26.32%) Public Cloud
3 4 (21.05%) PKI
4 3 (15.79%) Clustering
5 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
1 9 (47.37%) Unix
2 7 (36.84%) Windows
3 3 (15.79%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Migration
2 8 (42.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (26.32%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
4 5 (26.32%) ITIL
4 5 (26.32%) Operational Stability
4 5 (26.32%) Problem Management
4 5 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (21.05%) Impact Analysis
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (10.53%) Bill of Materials
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
2 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
3 3 (15.79%) Ruby
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Perl
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
1 5 (26.32%) Postfix
1 5 (26.32%) Varnish
1 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (21.05%) Sendmail
3 2 (10.53%) Ceph
3 2 (10.53%) KVM
4 1 (5.26%) Firmware
4 1 (5.26%) Samba
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 5 (26.32%) HAProxy
3 4 (21.05%) CA Single Sign-On
4 3 (15.79%) SnapMirror
4 3 (15.79%) Terraform
5 2 (10.53%) SELinux
6 1 (5.26%) Check_MK
6 1 (5.26%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
6 1 (5.26%) Nagios
6 1 (5.26%) OpenNMS
6 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.26%) Puppet
6 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
6 1 (5.26%) vMotion
6 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Greenplum
1 5 (26.32%) Sybase
1 5 (26.32%) VMware
2 4 (21.05%) NetApp
3 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.26%) Commvault
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) EMC
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) OneTrust
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.26%) Pure Storage
3 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.26%) Tenable